Do we routinely check all Admin applicants to see if they are sock-puppets?
Should we start doing so?
----- "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
From: "Fred Bauder"
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 20:04:54 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Daily Mail article on Sam Blacketer case
The harm to our public image comes from the fact
that a senior trusted
user has managed to deceive Wikipedia over a number of years and our
systems were inadequate to deal with this.
I hope there will be an honest debate in Wikipedia about how we can make
sure this doesn't happen again. Coming not that long after the Essjay
controversy, requiring trusted users to verify their identities seems
like a sensible response.
Andrew
That is part of what is tricky, we do require verification of identity
for those who have the oversight and checkuser tools, but he never asked
for those, and so as a mere arbitrator, was never asked.
Fred
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